The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the MVT, which functions to protect the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was presented with the award on mid-October as his latest record his work was named the best record of the past year.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues played in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I played around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted spaces that were facing possible closure due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The notion that money from shows in big venues supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor prize money to worthy causes.
When the band received the prize in 1996 for their release the album, frontman Cocker stated that the act would donate their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
In 2002, musician she divided her bounty across several good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, alongside other independent music bodies.
Additionally 1994 winners they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Winning was ample," said artist Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Last week, the MVT announced it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under public stewardship.
One venue in the city and the second in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
